Working on the Pond

For most of today, we've been working on digging the pond, which is going well, and I think will only need one more day of digging in order to have the basic shape completed. We took a break for a couple of hours to dig over the bed we started creating in the games garden. This runs alongside the septic tank (where it's already planted with hazel, willow, achillea, geums, daffodils and snowdrops), round the corner, and in front of the lower bank of shrubs up to the path and steps down into the kitchen garden. We ran out of steam when digging this, several years go (June 2012), and only got as far as the end of the septic tank. We've now done the wider bit round the corner, and along the back as far as the rhododendron...and it's been considerably faster than the day spent digging about a quarter of the area. Needless to say, the micro excavator pulls big stones out of the ground with, essentially, a wave of the hand. We've lifted several really large rocks out of here, and the pond, which would have each taken hours to extract, if we'd managed at all, so it's definitely been worth it.